Summary: This episode is titled “Cracks.” One of the great concerns of the Roman Church at the outset of the Reformation was just how far the Reformation would go, not so much in terms of variance in Doctrines, although that also was a concern. What Rome worried over was just how many different groups the Faith would split into. After all, division wasn’t something completely new. There’d already been a major division in the Church between East & West a half century before. And in the East, the Church was already fragmented into dozens of splinter groups across Central Asia. But up till the Reformation, the Western Church had managed to keep new & reform movements from splitting off. Most had eventually been subsumed back into the larger reach of the Church structure. (more…)
